Enforcement of 'net ban' back off for now

11:24 AM,
Oct. 30, 2013

Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford spent a day out on an Fish and Wildlife Commission boat to see for herself how nets really work. Here, Fulford, right, watches as Keith Ward pulls juvenile fish from his net.
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Leon Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford reaffirmed Wednesday morning her order of last week that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission stop enforcing the state's so-called "net ban" until contradictions between the constitutional amendment and rules designed to implement it are resolved.

Fulford granted a request by attorneys for the Wakulla Commercial Fisherman's Association, Panacea bait-and-tackle shop owner Ronald Fred Crum and mullet fishermen Jonas Porter and Keith Ward that she lift an automatic stay of her order triggered when FWC appealed it hours after being ...